Ancien Regime
This estate in the old regime paid taxes.
Third Estate
A bloody period during the French Revolution when thousands, particularly nobles, were killed by the guillotine.
Reign of Terror
Napoleon was born on the island of _______.
Corsica
How long did Napoleon come back for in between exiles?
100 days
The French motto from the Revolution up to today is three words. __________, ___________, _________
Liberty, Fraternity and Equality
Other than being weak and ineffective, what kind of ruler was King Louis XVI?
Absolute ruler
The king refused to allow the Third Estate to attend the Estates General meeting. In fact, he locked them out. They met here instead.
Tennis Court
Where was Napoleon's last battle? It's in Belgium today.
Waterloo
The Battle of Trafalgar between Britain on one side and France and Spain on the other. Britain defeated Napoleon and proved that it had the strongest navy in the world and could protect itself. True/False
The colors of the French flag. They need to be in order.
Blue
White
Red
The wife of King Louis XVI was 14 when she arrived from Austria and married the king. Who was she?
Marie Antoinette
An extremely violent period of time during the French Revolution called the Great Fear was when the _______Estate targeted the _______ and _______ Estates.
Third Estate targeted the First and Second Estates.
Napoleon was married the first time to ________, divorced her, and married a second time to _________.
Josephine
Marie Louise
Napoleon had hopes of defeating the British here along the Nile. They defeated him badly ending all hopes of French expansion into________.
Egypt
Nobles who fled France during the Revolution, especially the Reign of Terror. It's a French word.
Emigres
Supporting the American Revolution nearly doubled France's debt. What else caused debt in France?
The lifestyle of the Second Estate, especially the king.
A document that laid out the ideals of the French Revolution to the people especially speaking about equality and using the ideas of the Enlightenment.
The Declaration of Rights of Man
During Napoleon's time, this was a set of laws that guaranteed freedom of religion, equality before the law, and protected the right of individuals to have a trial by jury and all laws had to be published.
Code Napoleon
Napoleon gained power initially by overthrowing the ___________ which had been ruling France.
Directory
The two political parties that fought each other in the earlier years of the French Revolution.
Jacobins
Girondins
Though we never spoke about Robert Turgot in class, he recommended a way to deal with the huge debt by taxing which class?
Second Estate or the nobility
What happened on this date: July 14, 1789 in Paris?
The storming of the Bastille Prison.
Napoleon was exiled twice. The first time to ______ and the second time to _________.
Elba
St. Helena
When Napoleon overthrew the Directory, it was called a _______d'________. This is French. Spell it.
Coup d'Etat
He was the leading Jacobin who was eventually beheaded as well. SPELL his name.
Robespierre